Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.